Porter is a Platform as a Service that runs in your own cloud. Porter allows companies to deploy applications into their own AWS/GCP accounts with a streamlined developer experience. Under the hood, Porter provisions a battle-tested Kubernetes cluster in your AWS/GCP account and automates its day 2 operations, allowing startups to achieve enterprise-grade reliability and scalability with minimal DevOps overhead.
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Justin Rhee, Founder and CEO of Porter and an AWS Global Startup Program partner, shares how Porter’s strategic partnership with AWS has empowered them to co-develop, co-market, and co-sell cutting-edge solutions. Learn how Porter has enhanced its ability to drive innovation, deliver exceptional customer success, and unlock new growth opportunities while improving business outcomes. Watch the full fireside chat: https://go.aws/3YWlp1O
Why does Carry use Porter instead of hiring a full-time DevOps engineer? Later-stage companies generally need full-fledged, in-house DevOps teams to manage the complexity of their infrastructure. But for many startups, dedicating capital and engineering bandwidth to infra management doesn't make sense when their primary focus should be on shipping product. Porter allows startups like Carry to have production-grade infrastructure out of the box with minimal DevOps overhead.
🏦 Cost Explorer Tab (Beta): Users can now visualize AWS compute costs by cluster, app, and service. 🧑🤝🧑 Aurora Fast Cloning: Users can quickly and cost-effectively create a copy-on-write clone of Aurora databases. 👷♀️ Improved Docker Build Times: We’ve added functionality for caching every stage of Docker builds, resulting in up to a >25x improvement in build times. 💸 Cheapest AWS GPU: The least expensive GPU instance available on AWS, the g5g.xlarge instance, is now available via Porter!
How did Govly migrate from GCP to AWS in a day? Normally, to migrate across cloud providers, you'd have to: - Containerize your apps for portability - Write IaC like Terraform to provision infra resources, handle integration, and balance load - Set up a K8s cluster (allowing you to launch, operate, monitor, shut down, and restart containers and nodes) - Install components that handle operations like networking, monitoring, logging, and certificate management in the cluster to be prod-ready - Write helm charts to package and configure applications on K8s Instead of this months-long process, all Govly had to do on Porter was choose AWS as their new cloud provider, provision a new cluster, and deploy their apps.
Soff (YC S24) is a supply chain operating system for manufacturing companies, saving them millions of dollars through data unification and workflow automation. Co-founders Bernhard Hausleitner and Raban von Spiegel use Porter so their team can focus on shipping fast.
How did HomeLight migrate from Heroku to AWS and retain an excellent developer experience (and see cost savings)? They had been on Heroku for over a decade and ran into serious limitations on the PaaS. Migrating to AWS was the best path forward, but they weren't sure how they'd retain Heroku’s ease of deployment. Using Porter, they still have the developer experience of a PaaS but on more cost-effective, scalable, flexible, secure, and reliable AWS infra. Check out the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/evUGXrVD And read our case study featuring Homelight here: https://lnkd.in/eb6Tg_7U
Pax AI (YC S24) is an AI-powered broker that automates import tax refunds (aka duty drawback) for retailers and manufacturers so brands can reclaim 3-5% of their revenue. Co-founder Christopher Le uses Porter to increase developer velocity and for out-of-the-box scalability. Looking to use your cloud credits with the developer experience of a PaaS? Apply for the Porter startup deal: https://lnkd.in/eJahycr5
How is Porter a DevOps engineer's best friend? Other than helping early and growth-stage startups not worry about infrastructure management at all, Porter's users include public companies like Getaround with teams of highly experienced SREs. For these teams, Porter handles the undifferentiated infra heavy lifting, including: - Zero-downtime K8s version upgrades - CVE patch management - Automated component upgrades - Automated CI/CD and deployment strategies - FinOps, including resource rightsizing - Ephemeral environments to test changes before pushing to production - MLOps - One-click infra configuration for SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance All of which allows DevOps engineers to focus on the infra work that's most important to them and their organization. Full interview here: https://lnkd.in/evUGXrVD